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American youths never have known a world without the internet, without desktops and laptops and without tablets and cell phones. While advancements in technology have enhanced the academic experience, making learning easier, more immersive and a maybe a little fun, they also come with downsides. One of them is the […]

The origins of Women’s History Month date back to 1981, when it was announced that a nationwide celebration of female icons and influencers would take place in March of 1982 for one week. Five years later, in 1987, that week turned into an entire month thanks to a resolution passed […]

Address 205 N Dixie Hwy, West Palm Beach, FL 33401 Phone Number (561) 355-2996 E-Mail Address clerkweb@mypalmbeachclerk.com Directions From I-95, exit onto Okeechobee Boulevard and head east. Stay in the right lane. Go 3/4 mile to the second ramp on right, which is Australian Avenue North. Take the Australian Avenue […]

Yes and No, after well over a hundred years there is much work left to be done. The 100-year quest to make the voices of American women heard on Election Day was met with much fanfare in 1920, when Congress finally ratified the 19th Amendment. This year, the centennial of […]

As America celebrates the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, some might wonder how a right as fundamental is casting a ballot took the same number of years to come to fruition for female voters. And what might even be more questionable than that is how such a right took […]

Suffrage Movement Took 100 Years To Unfold in Pre- and Post-Civil War America The first signs of the quest for gender equality at the polls revealed themselves over 40 years before the Confederate artillery shots fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. Those blasts, as history would have it, sparked […]